Numbers 18:23 · JPS 1917

But the Levites alone shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Who acts: Levites, tent, children · What happens: do, bear, be, have, service · To what, where: service, iniquity, statute, inheritance, tent

This is Numbers 18:23 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Levites, tent, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Levites	det
3	Levites	levite	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 Levites	advmod
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 service	det
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tent	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tent	det
11	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 service	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 meeting	case
13	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tent	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bear	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bear	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 iniquity	nmod:poss
20	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 statute	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 statute	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 statute	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 statute	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 statute	det
26	statute	statute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	31 generations	case
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 generations	advmod
29	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	31 generations	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 generations	nmod:poss
31	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 statute	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 have	cc
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 children	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 children	det
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 have	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Israel	case
38	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 children	nmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
40	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	aux
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 inheritance	det
43	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	shall	the Levites	the service of the tent of meeting			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality
2	bear	shall	Levites = levite	Levites's iniquity			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient
3	is a	shall	tent	a statute	for your generations		tree rules
4	have	shall	children = child	no inheritance		among the children of Israel	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inheritance=Patient
5	service			the tent of meeting			nom service «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וְעָבַ֨ד הַלֵּוִ֜י ה֗וּא אֶת־עֲבֹדַת֙ אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד וְהֵ֖ם יִשְׂא֣וּ עֲוֺנָ֑ם חֻקַּ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וּבְתוֹךְ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יִנְחֲל֖וּ נַחֲלָֽה׃

Numbers 18:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:NUM:695 of Mova's parse database.

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